Political adolescents

An interesting window into the Labor party and its self-denial.

Contrast this with what the Labor Party is actively trying to do. It seeks to restrict what we say to what the ruling class wants to hear; to restrict what we eat and drink to what the ruling class thinks is good for us; to tell us how much energy we should consume; to define "offensive" in terms that privilege one group over another; to tell our shopkeepers whom they can hire and how they can manage; to reduce the private sphere to little more than the bedroom; to skew our tribunals by appointing those who are part of its ruling class; to tell us that belief in our culture and history is unacceptable; to tell people what their religious conventions should be; to use government to deliver services as a matter of ideology, not practicality.

And, in the pattern of ruling classes everywhere, to hand out legal, financial or social privileges to sectional interests.

Mr Leigh claims Labor is the party of egalitarianism. If it were once, it is no more. That much is clear to this former ALP member. It is now the party of a new ruling class, all about connections and sectional privilege, populated by lifelong insiders with no connection to the people who sustain their lifestyles.
 

Many still believe that the Labor party cares about the man-in-the-street. They couldn't be more mistaken. Labor now cares about power and wealth (in its own back pocket). Labor cares about stand-over tactics and perverting justice to benefit its own chosen few.  Labor cares about the environment because the Greens are its political master. Labor does nothing that does not benefit labor.
Labor sounds like a typical teenager. Who wants a teenager running a country.